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Knowledge Center Emerging Tech Meeting with Brad Ryan, NCQA’s Chief Product Officer September 15, 2022 As value-based payment models gain traction, effective and scalable quality measurement is essential for provider and health plan collaboration. In the digital age, there’s the opportunity to make measurement more accessible and actionable closer to the point of care in…

Knowledge Center Why WEDI, with Steven Kansteiner, Vice President of Physician Data Operations at UnitedHealthcare September 2, 2022 “Why WEDI” is a series of short interviews with WEDI members and leaders in health IT. This week we interviewed Steven Kansteiner, Vice President of Physician Data Operations at UnitedHealthcare. Steve is also on the WEDI Board of…

Knowledge Center Interview with Ron Emerson, Zoom, Global Healthcare Lead – Telehealth Awareness Week August 31, 2022 WEDI is a proud supporter of Telehealth Awareness Week, September 18-24 #TelehealthisHealth Michael McNutt, WEDI Director of Events & Education, sits down with Ron Emerson, Zoom Global Healthcare Lead to discuss all things Telehealth. Learn more about the Telehealth…

Knowledge Center Let’s Work Together August 26, 2022 Written by Samantha Holvey, MHL, Director, Workgroups & Communications 2022 marks 10 years that I have been working at WEDI and managing the workgroups has been the most amazing journey. The hundreds of member volunteers that I know by voice, who feel more like friends, have taught…

Knowledge Center Emerging Tech Meeting: Synaptic Health Alliance & Blockchain August 18, 2022 Guest speaker: Kyle Culver, Director, Emerging Technologies, Humana & Co-founder of the Synaptic Health Alliance, an alliance of health leaders working to solve our industry’s toughest problems through blockchain technology. Kyle presents an overview of Synaptic Health Alliance and discusses how to…

Knowledge Center Genomics Workgroup – Pharmacogenetics July 26, 2022 Presentation on Pharmacogenetics, the science of using genetics to determine drug optimization based on precision medicine. Our speaker is Daniel Dowd, SVP, Medical Affairs for Genomind. His presentation covers the basics of the field and introduces its value as way to both decrease costs and improve…

Knowledge Center Emerging Tech SWG Meeting – Featuring Amy Berk MSN, RN, Director, Population Health from Microsoft July 21, 2022 Amy Berk MSN, RN, Director, Population Health from Microsoft joined us to present unique services that cloud providers offer including those that provide stronger reliability, scalability, recovery, security, and health care specific services such as…

Knowledge Center Protecting Half the Sky June 29, 2022  Written by Samantha Holvey, MHL, Director, Community & Education Updated 7/8/22 Back in 2009 when I was thinking about going to grad school but wasn’t quite sure what I wanted to study, I read “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide” and my…

Knowledge Center Building Trust in Digital Health June 28, 2022 By Michael Perretta, co-creator of Docket® “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.” – Warren Buffett Taking a “Shot” at Immunization Records There wasn’t a noticeable demand for immunization records back in 2017, but there also wasn’t a…

Knowledge Center Speaking With One Voice: SDOs, CORE and WEDI Send Joint Letter to HHS on Administrative Standards June 22, 2022 Written by Charles Stellar, WEDI President & CEO As we know all too well, the health care standards and operating rules development process can be highly siloed. However, this mold was cast aside by…